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Chapter 4

Visions of the Future
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Visions of small towns growing up, a wooden fortification. Lightning strikes
or fire starts from war, the city is ruins and the ground is green again.
Another city takes its place but this time it's more organized and better
fortified. Fire, it's ash and the field is green again. Ice comes, the season
changes, a city springs to life all of a sudden again and this time it is
stone. Lightning strikes, fire spreads, the city crumbles. The wall topples
and the field begins to overtake the ruines again. Mages form a circle, the
field is razed, the earth shifts, stone, metal, and glass appear in a
completely new type of city is formed. Lightning strikes, water comes from
some unknown source and the flames are extinguished. War comes, the city
defends itself, fires are put out and the damage is repaired. Suddenly, the
vision fades and Decay is there grinning at Viqu with those needle-like teeth
dripping with anger.

"Yes, isn't it terrible! There's a parasite out there and each time it's
just a little bit harder to get rid of, don't ya know!" nods Decay assuridly.
"This is where you come in my little warrior friend! I'm going to let you
keep living and in exchange, you're going to go up there and kill everyone and
burn everything down and speed up my rise to power! Doesn't that sound
great!" said Decay, and all the little mushrooms cheered and shrieked.

Viqu fell to her knees again and Decay motioned the mushrooms to quiet down.

"I'll be watching you very closely my little spore!" grinned Decay.

Viqu looked up at the mushroom and as more spores entered her senses she
felt her memories begin to fade from her mind. All of her ambition, any
relationship, and any sense of family fell from her. A vision of war, fire,
and the green wilds of Thar-Eris took the place of what she forgot.

"There, there," comforted Decay, and as Viqu's eyes began to glaze over
the last vision she held was that of the needle-like teeth, rows and rows
of them growing wider and wider closing around her neck.

She woke with a startle to find herself before a towering female figure.
The female seneschal called herself Jeseztha and motioned Viqu in the
direction she needed to go and that this place was called the Academy.
Her training started today and she had best protect herself because Thera
is a dangerous place filled with many horrible things to discover.